{"author":"Mary Balogh","author_id":"Mary+Balogh","total_quotes":103,"quotes":[{"text":"Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.","author":"Mary Balogh","tags":["crying","sorrow","tears"],"id":5251,"author_id":"Mary+Balogh"},{"text":"We are made up of everything we have ever been, Percy. It is the joy and the pain of our individuality. There are no two of us the same.","author":"Mary Balogh","tags":["experience","individuality"],"id":6680,"author_id":"Mary+Balogh"},{"text":"The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?","author":"Mary Balogh","tags":["beauty","ugly"],"id":11498,"author_id":"Mary+Balogh"},{"text":"There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it.What the devil was the reason?","author":"Mary Balogh","tags":["adamant","reason"],"id":21666,"author_id":"Mary+Balogh"},{"text":"Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.","author":"Mary Balogh","tags":["imagination"],"id":23259,"author_id":"Mary+Balogh"},{"text":"Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.","author":"Mary Balogh","tags":["happy","nature","people"],"id":31124,"author_id":"Mary+Balogh"},{"text":"And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...Alive.","author":"Mary Balogh","tags":["alive","breath","live"],"id":43237,"author_id":"Mary+Balogh"},{"text":"Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?","author":"Mary Balogh","tags":["beauty","shell"],"id":44073,"author_id":"Mary+Balogh"},{"text":"She had never believed in fate. She still did not. It would be nonsense of freedom of will and choice, and it was through such freedom that we worked our way through life and learned what we needed to learn. But sometimes, it seemed to her, there was something, some sign, to nudge one along in a certain direction. What one chose to do with that nudge was up to that person.","author":"Mary Balogh","tags":["fate"],"id":44516,"author_id":"Mary+Balogh"},{"text":"Happy? Most of the time? Happiness is always a fleeting thing,' he said, 'It never rests upon anyone as a permanent state, though many of us persist in believing in the foolish idea that if this would just happen or that we would be happy for the rest of our lives. I know moments of happiness just as most other people do. Perhaps I have learned to find it in ways that would pass some people by. I feel the summer heat here at this moment and see the trees and the water and hear that invisible gull overhead. I feel the novelty of having company when I usually come here alone. And this moment brings me happiness.","author":"Mary Balogh","tags":["historical-romance","simply-love","sydnam-butler"],"id":44844,"author_id":"Mary+Balogh"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":103,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}